Lead Teacher – Pangea Educational Development

Pangea Educational Development (PED) is a US founded non-profit organization dedicated to empowering schools and unifying communities through sustainable education. PED believes in the liberating power and opportunities provided by a quality education. Our model was developed to empower schools to improve their own educating circumstances: the school environment, livelihoods of teachers, and access for under resourced students and to do so in a way that is sustainable.

Job Summary: The Lead Teacher will work alongside teachers from our four partner schools in Uganda and within their communities. The Lead Teacher will work at the forefront of our professional development program, working with teachers at all levels to grow their teaching techniques in new and innovative ways by creating and implementing professional development sessions as well as visiting teacher classrooms to observe practices. The Lead teacher will both administer and develop programming for PED’s Community Center that works directly with students and community members.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

The Lead Teacher is in charge of developing and facilitating our teacher training program. They will work in collaboration with the US staff to define, create and implement strategies, using the most current effective educational strategies for the design, implementation and evaluation of programs that facilitateprofessional development and continuous learning for all employees. Program focuses include literacy instruction, numeracy instructionand assessing students to identify academic interventions.